I fellers 2i -09 HHii, onum "I The whole art of Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson. VOL. 10. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1850. No 3Sr Published by Theodore Sehoch. TERMSTwo dollars per annum in advance To o dollars ami a nuarter. half yearly and if not paid before the end of the year. Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their papers by a carrier or stage drivers employed by the propne rir. wilt hi? charfd 37 1-2 cents, oer vear. extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option 01 me r.uuur. IOAdvertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) jiit ha inserted three weeks for nn dnlinr. nd twenty-five cents for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and three insertions the same. A liberal discount made to yearly advertiseis. IOAU letters addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB PRINTING. Having a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna mental Type, we are prepareu iu execute every description of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes BiauK receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms AT THE OFFICE OF THE Jeffersonian Republican. A Twilight Thouhgt. BY BDRUNGTON B. WALE, ESQ. If yon bright orbs which gem the night, Bo each a blissful dwelling sphere, , Where kindred spirits re-unite, Whom death has torn asunder here ; , .rifow sweet it were at once to die, And leave this weary world afar ! Mix'd soul in soul to cleave the sky, And soar away from star to star. But 0 ! how dark, and drear, and lone, Would seem the brightest world of bliss; If wandering through each radiant zone, We failed to find the loved of this ! If there no more the hearts may twine, Which death's cold hand alone can sever Those stars would then in mockery shine, More hateful since they shine forever ! It cannot be ! each hope, each fear, Which lights the eye, or clouds the brow, Proclaims there is a happier sphere Than thia bleak world which holds us now, There is a voice by sorrow heard, When heaviest weighs life's galling chain ; That voice is God's unfailing work, " The pure in heart shall meet again." Well, should this trembling flesh decay, Beyond, or time, or death, or pain, The soul shall seek a sunnier day, Where the death-parted meet again ! Then welcome be the holy hour Which calls me to yon starry sphere ! And gives my spirit wings to soar, And roam with kindred spirits there ! Laying Him Out. During the summer, lome years ago, an old quadroon woman came up to the office of an out hotel rather late one night, when the clerk accosted her with Well, aunty, what do you want V I is come up to lay out dai man in No. 41, replied the woman. ' No 41,' said the clerk, you are mistaken; there is nobody dead here, and No 41 only ate his supper a little while ago.' ' Go way, massa,' said the quadroon : 'don't fool wis me; you know I ain't gwine to tell people dar is anybody dead in dis house. Make one of your waiters show me to de room.' ' Well, said the clerk, who was always in for a bit of fun ; here, Tom, show this woman up to No. 41.' Tom obeyed, and showed her to the room. It being very warm, the door and window were both open, and a candlo burning in the crate threw a dim light around the room, giv ing it that appearance which the apartment of the sick generally present, lhe white iheet which was thrown over the supposed corpue nil- fed up the picture, and gave assurance to the old Quadroon woman that all was right. The waiter having left her, she took the candle and approached the bedside. No. 41 happened to be a man of very pale complexion, and breathed almost imperceptibly. The old woman having taken a hurried glance, proceeded to get the wash bowl and towl, and filling the former with water, she placed it on a chair near the bed side. Dipping the towel in the basin, she said, ' I guess de gemram wo nt want sbavin by de look ob Ms smove chin,' and swashing the wet towel over his face, she commenced to wash him. ' What the thunder are you about V exclaim ed the supposed corpse, rising up in bed. 'Who the devil are you, and what are you doing here!1 The quadroon screamed, in her fright overturn ed the chair and wash-bowl, and then stood with her mouth wide open, staring wildly at the supposed dead man. 4 What axe you doing hare, you old wretch, you V thundered No. 41. Why I came to lay you out, massa,' said the woman, recovering from her flight ; but bless de Lord, you bab come to life.' ' Lay me out !' exclaimed the astonished No. 41 ; 'if you don't leave here, you old hag, I will Jay you out, to a certainty.' And seizing a boot ho made an evident demonstration of put ting his threat in execution, while the old wo man rushed down the stairs, and running a gainst a couple of waiters, tumbled them over very unceremoniously. What the devil w the row V asked the clerk, who had bean anxiously expecting the denoue ment. The old woman explained the ridiculons mis take. she: had made, saying it must be No. 41 in de other hotel, and left, while the cletk nearly plit his sides laughing at the joke. N. 0. Pi cayune. Man creeps into childhood bounds into man hood, and takes a thundering quick leapinlo old age From U;e Alexandria Gazette. Witchcraft in New Jersey. The following report of a trial in West Jersey for witchcraft, is preserved in an Almanac pub lished in the year 1807. The trial took place in Burlington county, in the 1730, a little more than a century ago, and as an incident of the "good old times" of which we often hear, has some inter est for the modern reader. We find it in the Mount Holly Mirror. Were there no other reason for promoting an in crease of knowledge, it would be desirable for the sake of humanity only, to give such information as exhibits the singular ignorance of former ages and the improvements of succeeding generations. The following account taken from the Pennsylva nia Gazette, of October 1730, is inserted to evince not only the absurdity, but the cruelty, of a super stitious error which about that period infected not merely the common people,.but the expounders of law and dispensers of justice. We may now flat ter ourselves that the terror of witchcraft is no more ; and that'a poor woman may be both old and ugly without being in danger of hanging for being too light in the water, or drowning for being too heavy ; Bcruonton, Oct. 12. 1730, " Saturday last, at Mount Holly, about eight miles from this place, near three hundred people were gathered to see an experiment or two tried on some persons accused of witchcraft. It seems the accused had been charged with making their neighbors' sheep dance in an uncommon manner, and causing hogs to speak and sing psalms, etc. to the great terror and amazement of the King's good and peaceable subjects in this province ; the accusers being very positive that if the accused were weighed in scales against a Bible, that the Bible would prove too heavy for them, or if they were bound and put in the creek, they would swim the said accused, desirous to make their inno conce appear, voluntarily offered to undergo the said trials, if two of the most violent of their ac cusers would be tried with them. "Accordingly the time and place were agreed on and advertised about the country ; the accus ers were one man and one woman ; and the ac cused the same. The parties being met, and the people got together, a grand consultation was held before they proceeded to trial, in which it was a greed to use the scales first ; and a committee of men were appointed to search the men, and also the women, to see if thoy had anything of weight about them, particularly pins. " After the scrutiny was over, a huge great Bi ble, belonging to the Justice of the Peace, was provided, and a lane was made from the Justice's to the scales, which were fixed on a gallows erect ed expressly for that purpose right opposite to the house, that the Justice's wife and the rest of the ladies might see the trial, without coming amongst the mob ; and after the manner of Moorfields, a large ring was also made. Then came out of the house a grave, tall man, carrying the Holy Writ before the supposed wizard, etc. (as solemnly as the sword bearer of London before the Lord May or.) The wizard was first put into the scale, and over him was read a chapter out of the book of Moses, and then the Bible was put in the other scale, which being kept down before, was imme diately let go ; but, to the great surprise of the spectators, flesh and bones came down plump, and out weighed that great book by abundance. "After the same manner, others were served, and their lumps of mortality severally were too heavy for the big book plump they came down. "This being over, the accusers and the mob, not satisfied with this experiment, would have the trial by water ; accordingly a most solemn proces sion was made to the mill pond, whero both accused and accusers, being partially stripped of their clothing, were bound hand and foot, and each placed in the water, lengthways from the side of a barge, having for security a rope about the mid dle of each, which was held by a person in the barge. The accused man being thin and spare, with some difficulty began to sink at last, but the other three swam very lightly upon the water. A sailor in the barge jumped out upon the back of lhe man accused, thinking to drive him to the bottom; but the person bound without any help, came up some time before the other. The woman ac cuser being told that she did not sink, would be ducked a second time ; when she swam as light as before, upon which she declared that the ac cused had bewitched her to make her so light, and that she would be ducked a hundred times, but she would duck the devil out of her. The accused man being surprised at his own swimming, was not so confident of hie innocence before, but said: " If I am a witch, it is more than I know." The more thinking part of the spectators were of opin ion that any person so bound and placed in the water, unless they were mere skin and bone, would swim till their breath was gone, and their lungs were filled with water. But it being the general opinion of the populace that the little cloth ing which the accused had on helped to support them, it is said they are to be tried again the next warm weather, entirely divested of it." Proper Time for Slaughtering Ani mals. It has lately been discovered by a French chem ist, that the flQsh of animals, which are killed in the latter part of the night, will keep much longer without salting, than it will when they are killed in the daytime. This proves that the flesh is bet ter fitted for keeping, when the life and blood is taken from the animal, at the time the tempera ture in the lowest, and the respiration is the least active. Hence the reason that the flesh of ani mals that have been highly heated, or hard driven, will scarcely keep at all. Navigating the Atmosphere. The first, complete work upon this subject, is one now on our table, by John Wise, a veteran asronant of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Hitherto we have had scraps of informoration from En cyclopaedias and Magazines, relating to the art, but here we have a Book on the subject, written by one who has made many aerial voyages, and who relates his own adventures. It embraces a full history of the subject, commencing with the ancient artificial flying pigeon of Archylus, the Greek, and ending with the most recent experi ments. The subject of navigating the air has occupied the attention of many eminent men in almost ev ery age of the world's history, but it was not until a recent period that any success was promised to an art which warmed the imagination of Bacon, and engaged the attention of the sober Bishop of Chester. In 1782 there lived at ancient Avignon, in France, two brothers, young men, named Ste phen and Joseph Montgolfier, who, being of an in genious turn of mind, conceived the project of send ing up small balloons inflated with rarified air, and by many experiments they discovered that as they enlarged their balloons, their ascending power be came greater, and from this they went on increas ing their size, until they constructed one of a ca pacity of 23,000 cubic feet, and with it they sent up some animals in a basket. The voyage was successful, and this induced them to construct one of gigantic dimension, viz, 74 feet high and 48 in diameter. With this balloon a brave and cool Frenchman, named M. Pilatre de Rozier, volun teered to make a voyage two or three hundred feet high, the balloon being secured by long cords to the earth. He made several ascents, and on the 21st May, 1783, he, along with the Marquis d'Arlandes, made the first free ascent into the atri al regions, rising to the height of 3,000 feet, and made a succussful excursion over Paris, and finally landed a few miles from where they started. This formed an epoch in the history of serial nav igation, and the fame of the Montgolfiers soon spread over Europe and reached America. Al though hydrogen gas was discovered long before the Montgolfiers made their balloon, and its utili- ty to me purposes oi oenai navigation naa oeen pre- . I 1 . t It viously suggested, yet it was never really applied for that purpose, except for experiment in the fee - ture room; but no sooner was the success of the Ifnno-nlfir hallnnn snrnnd nhrnad. than th vir. tnes of hvdrntrpn henamn annnrnnt. anri it wan firmly believed bv many at that time, that balloons . xt i would soon be as common as crows. Napoleon , . , , ,. . , , lightened many an English matron, when he threatened to cross the channel with his Boulogne army in oaiioons. But nis paper wans," never ventured to bame Uld Uingland s " wooden walls;" nor does it appear that we are any nearer to "a system" of aerial navigation at the present day, than they were then. It is the opinion of Mr Wise, however, that ballooning is about half a cen- Inru nhpsrl nf thft a(r onrl iffho gnirih.f mon. ical progress keeps pace with the onward march of intellect, he says, " our children will travel to any part of the globe without the inconvenience of smone, sparKs ana sea sickness, ana ai me raie oi i. I .1 r one hundred miles per hour. It would indeed be a glorious thing if we could career through the regions above at such a rate, but our dreams are far more moderate than those of friend Wise. We would be content with ten mites an hour, onlv let us hare the wincr. an independent pair. Then, when like Jeremiah nf old. we were troubled in mind ami .mherl for ' a lodee in some vast wilderness," all that we l I IK VV Film III rl IM1VH If J II V HWV 2 1 f 1 I I M ff 1 M M " J f would have to do, would be to mount and be off, " over mountain ana sea. oucn mings woum oe it . 111 Cl t .t? 1tt very pleasant everybody would be rejoiced if such things could be done, and many strong argu- ments may be used respecting the probability of such things being yet accomplished, but not, in our nnininn. safelv. eonvenientlv nor erinnnmirallv l,v r , j , , ji-ji r?oi 00o0i' ho , h,0 aar va opinion of airortauts to the contrary notwithstand- . . 1 lnsv I '"fa I The "revoloidalspindle," of Robjohn, which was in the course oi construction at noDoKen, and f - T T ml wnicn was 10 oe propeaea wun iwo smau sieam engines, some time this summer, has been sadly damaged by the. late tornado. If this be the means of preventing the balloon from enjoying her aeri- .... - - - . I al flight by steam, we will regret it exceedingly, Mr. Wise has made a great number of success- ful mrialvovaaes. and his book is one of the most ,. ii i J J t - l u I VUlUaUlC CTUI JUVilIIIUU UIIU Kf. 1U OUUlbC to science as a historical and scientific work on the construction of balloons, and the manner of navigating them. There is one prominent and useful fact brought to light, viz, that ballooning is a conservator of health, serial navigation cured Mr. Wise of disease of the lunns and chronic di3- pepsia.and he is confident that it would be of great uanaG ininviAa Thi0 va hfilieve iaa new Men. " i Ubiiiiiit wtiiiunum a.wiw " " I hut rnrrert nnn rind fine aeree tiff W th science and reason, but as these things trouble us not per sonally, we have a longing eye but weak faith, to mount the aerial ship, cleaving our way through " the blue ethereal sky," at the rate of 100 miles per hour, laughjng at your lazy locomotives and steamboats era wlfng away below, as things good enough for a more benighted age. Scientific American A very fat man ( for the purpose of quizzing Dr. BofH ,) -asked him to prescribe lor his complaint, which he declared was sleeping with his mouth open. Sir,' said the doctor, your disease is incurable Your kin is too short, so that when you shut vour eyea your mouih opens.' ' Gigantio Bedbugs. The Albany Knickerbocker thus describes the bedbugs to be met with on the Hudson river : " The bedbugs during the summer season, which navigate the Hudson in some of our steamboats, are of such uncommon size, that they are some times mistaken for a kind of rats. The deck hands amuse themselves by shooting them with shovels, after chasing them about the deck. One of the largest we have heard of lately knawed a sunder the night before last, the big tow line that fastened the tow boat Jemima Wilkinson to the deck, greatly endangering the lives of the crew. Those described by the Knickerbocker, don't begin with some we have heard of in this city. A young man tells us of a great conflict he had with a band of these midnight assassins, one night last summer. He had just succeeded in getting into a sound sleep, when he was suddenly arous ed by a terrible picking at his body. After slaying a number of the enemy, he endeavored to make his escape, by retreat, when a large fat fellow, who appeared to be the General, rallied new re cruits, and the young man was taken up bodily by his antagonists, who succeeded in carrying him to the stairs, where, through the help of abed-fellow, who had become alarmed at the confussion, the poor fellow, made his escape out the front door, and was seen running towards the Jersey City Ferry, like a maniac. N. Y. Paper. A down east chap, walking with a lady, stum bled and accidentally fell. The lady, thinking to commisserate his mishap, observed that she ' re gretted his unlucky faux pas.' I did'nt hurt my fore paws, replied he, 'it was my knee. Judicial Proceedings in Caifornia. A corespondent of the N. Orleans Delta thus describes the remarkably free and easy way in which justice is administered in California : Some lime in December last, whilst Judge was giving his decision upon the admissi bility of some evidence, one of the lawyers rose, and said : "Your decision is perfectly ridiculous. You just decided the question the other way." Judge I fine you ten dollars, for your im- I w m pertinence. Connsel. Here is the ten dollars (at the ' same lime throwing over the gold piece of that denomination, wnicn lodged in nis nonors oo- I SOm, and caused him to unbutton before he could gel his fine.) , Som,e olher q"?on soon arose, and whilst the Judge was giving his decision with becom . b. , be ,, . , me gravity, me lonowing scene uccureu : 6r Sherlfff . wishin lo interruDt lhe Judge )g0 up t0 ,ho Clly Holei and bring me down a brandy cock-tail, and one of the best cigars." Judge. " Sir hadn't you better wait until I am through? Juror.' Certainly, I'll watt ; but 1 m most confoundedly thirsty. ine JUfOr U1CU IUH1BU BtUUUU IU JVI. " ci , , j , i Juror , OolcanSl. don you know me ? I'm from VVarren countv. Ohio, and was introducd Q you lw0 year8 ag0 by Tom Cor win, at rearl . street Hotel, Cincinnati. I used to associate with gentlemen ai home, but here ihey put me on their infernal juries.' Vol. W. Well, we will soon be through wiih the case, and you will be relieved. Juror. You used to be counted some in the t rt r u. : - J T l way 01 a ar-ngn., m uio ; aim i huc v give ,he Vers, On the Other Side panic- I ti1c hnllinnir Hanrva if I . . w t Uh nQ , we a ui n.. ,ua n,.A ha?6 nol vet been aole to determine under what 1 . cty we are trying it. Juror. ' Why, the law of common sense the only law worth a d n anywhere. In arguing the case before the Jury, one of the counsel lor the deiense, alter speaKing oi the manner in which California had been ac- quired, dec, auuaea 10 uie asi numoer oi ouu . , . ,, , . . . r o , . j , J. . r ... , ,fT, CAV. Id! II1CU lit 3 CTB 411 I i W H T IVIIIIIg -.w, " - . . Qir nnnn Ihn vtrntfl em I nf tHnllfnrnia. With the 'idian sun of the nineteenth century shining UDOn ut are w0 ,0 be governed by authorities printed at Madrid two hundred years ago. and recently dug up by some legal antiquarian from t r iTf 1 1 the ruins of the bpanisn inquisition i win you, gentlemen of the Jury, recognize this as law ? t Juror.' no sir-w noi oy a a u sigui. i 18 scarcely ncuo.-.iy.u .D .U.,D. -I 1 ikA Horonrianl nalnatl hla ml SOOII LIURCU. WIU IUO UDlDlluain i;iiivm What if Dirt? Old Doct. Cooner. of S. C, used to say lo his atudent, 'Don't be afraid of a little din, young gentlemen. What is din? Why nothing at all offensive, when chemically viewed. Rub a III tie alkali upon that 'dirty grease spot on your . . - i i . coat, and it undergoes a cnemicai cnarrge and becomes soap. Now rub it with a little water . . . . , 1 .1: . .. . . to naltha. nvaa.a ar-ian nU 1( uisa jpem. , n e.w00, water, or dirt. That is not a very odorous pile of dirt, you observe there. Well, scatter a lit tle gypsum over u and it is no longer dirty, ih- oryihing you call dirt, is worthy your nonce as students of chemistry. Analize it ! Analize u ! It will all separate into very clean ele ments. Dirt makes corn, corn makes bread and meat, and that makes a very sweet young lady ihai I saw one of you kissing last night. So, after all you were kissing dirt particularly if she whitens her sKin wun cnaiK or lunecs earth. There is no telling young, gentlemen, what is dirt, i nougo i imm say mat ruuuuig such stuff upon me Deauuiui smii oi a young lady is a dirty practice. Poarl powder, L think is wdr. of bismuihnoihtug but dirt.1 Thoughts for Toung Men. Anything from the penn of Horace Manx, is sure to be read and treasured. An exchange, well says, 'here is a sentiment worthy to be re corded in characters of gold.' The oxtracis are from his lecture i, 'A few thoughts for a young man.' Man is not a savage or a pauper by lhe in exorable fatality of his nature. He is surround ed with erery form of the truest and noblest ; wealth, or well being, for the body, wealth for lhe mind, wealth for the heart. He is not of plebian origin, but his lineage is from God; and when he asserts and exemplifies the dignity of his nature, royal and patrician titles sink into nothingness and sink to oblivion. Men were not created to porform twenty-four months of bodily labor to twelve months of time, whilo the intellectual and moral improvements, which a single year might master, is spread over a life. The laws of nature and of God doom no man to live on a potatoe a day ; but the productive powers of the earth are as much beyond all the demands of healthful sustenance, as the volume of the atmosphere which encircles the globe is beyond the capacity of human lungs. Men were noi created to live in wigwams nor in siies ; but to rise up and to lie down in dwell ing of comfort and elegance. Men were not created for mendacity societies, and alms hous ses, and the gullows ; but for competence, and freedom, and virtue; not for thougthless puerili ties and vanities, but dignity and honor, for joy unspeakable and full of glory. Pnuishuicnt. Sir George Staunton visited a man in In dia who had committed a murder, and, in order nol only to save his life, but what was of much more consequence, his caste, he submitted to the penalty imposed : this was, that he should sleep seren years on a bedstead, without any mattress, the whole surface of which was stud ded with points of iron, resembling nails, but nol so sharp as to penetrate the flesh. Sir George saw him in the fifth year af his proba tion, and his skin was like the hide of a rhi noceros, but more callous. At that lime, how ever, he could sleep comfortably on his "bed of thorns," and remarked, that at the expiration of lhe term of his sentence, he should, most probably, continue that system, from choice, which he had been obliged to adopi from ne cesity. Not an Unusual Thing An unsuccessful lover was asked by what he lost his divinity : 'Alas !' said he, 'I flat tered her till she got too proud to speak to me.' Why is twice eleren like twice ten ? Be cause twice eleven are twenty-two, and twice ten are twenty, too. A Rational Conclusion. An honest Dutchman, in training up his son in lhe way he should go, frequently exercised him in Bible lessons. On one of these occa sions he asked him : 'Who vas dat would not shleep mit Botibher's wife.' 'Shoaeph.' Dai's a coot poy ! Vel, vat was de reason vy he would not shleep mit her V ' Don't know, sphoae he wasn't shleepy.' A pair of Irishmen, who were recently trav elling towards the Iron City, came upon a mile board standing by the wayside, with this in scription upon it : "13 Miles from Pittsburg," Supposing it to be a tomb-tonc, one of them gently tapped the other upon the shoulder, and in a low, sepulchral tone said "Tread lightly, Jammy ; here lies the dead ; 43 years ould, an' his name is Miles, from Pittsburg," " So, here I am, between two tailors," cried a beau at a public table w here a couple of young tailors were seated, who had just begun busi ness for themselves. " True," was the reply, "we are beginner, and can only afford to keep one goose between us." Rather cool. -'You're a pretty fellow," said tho owner of a wood pile to a thief, "to coma here and steal my wood while I sleep." "Yes," replied lhe thief, "and 1 suppose you would stay up there and see me break my back with lifting 'before you would offer to como down and help me." What IVext. The Montreal Gazette translates from L'Av-?t enir, a Canadian paper, the following extrabr-: ' dinary story, with the remark that the editors have since heard the thing is dead : Human Monster. Wo learn lhat a female in the parish of St. Timoihy, has just gi?en birth to an extraordinary child, which, gro tesque horror, exceeds all that humanity has yet produced in lhe way of infant phenomena. The new born child has nothing human about it but the head and arms ; the rest is literally a tor toise, the back and belly covered with a hard shell, and the feet perfectly resembling the paws of the amphibious animal. Like the tortoise, it can prolude and retract the feet within the shell, and articulates sounds which have not the slightest resemblance to the cry of a now-born child. We are even told that it can retract its head within the shell, un til lhe top of it is level with the shoulders. The parents, obeying the first sentiments of honor, and dreading the disagreeble reputation which this occurrence might attach to their t namoi, desired to destroy this prodigy immedi-' ately after its birth, but hating consulted their ' priest, they resigned themselves, and the child'. ! received bapiism, and is likely lo livft. '4 I ' 1 i . 4tf
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